A bear that ran amok in a supermarket in northern Japan has been caught two days after it attacked a worker, the latest in a surge of encounters between bears and people in the country.

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been roaming around a nearby house and eating its way through adjacent cornfields,

A bear that attacked a supermarket employee in Japan and caused widespread damage was captured Monday morning, bringing an intense two-day standoff to an end. The incident began early Saturday morning when the bear,

As there were no customers at the time, the bear roamed inside the store in Japan and helped itself to the meat stock

A rogue bear that terrorised a supermarket in northeastern Japan was captured and killed after a two-day hunt that ended on 2 December. The animal attacked an employee and scavenged through the store’s meat section before eluding authorities for about 48 hours.